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A Key to Better Leadership: Confident Humility

Adam Grant · 6 Dec 2022

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Confidence without humility breeds arrogance and humility without confidence breeds doubt, so the two belong together.

Confident humility is being secure enough in your expertise and strengths to admit your ignorance and weaknesses. In Think Again, I highlighted evidence that confidence without humility breeds blind arrogance, and humility without confidence yields debilitating doubt.

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  1. Confident humility is being secure enough in your expertise and strengths to admit your ignorance and weaknesses. In Think Again, I highlighted evidence that confidence without humility breeds blind arrogance, and humility without confidence yields debilitating doubt.

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